Grand Prix Rejects

watka

Honda are gone surely? It's been a disaster and even the slowest, poorest team on the grid won't take up the opportunity to be a works team. They won't enter their own team as it's too late in the season and they aren't going to come up with a chassis better than McLaren realistically. Sauber must b...

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Seeing as I'm here, time to climb back on the ol' horse I suppose. 2017 Hungryman Grand Prix 1. Lewis Hamilton 2. Valtteri Bottas 3. Max Verstappen 4. Sebastian Vettel 5. Daniel Ricciardo 6. Nico Hulkenberg 7. Esteban Ocon 8. Daniil Kvyat 9. Sergio Perez 10. Fernando Alonso Pole: Lewis Hamilton Fast...

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I will be following his testing post-Hungarian GP very keenly. I can't believe that after so long out and with such a serious injury that he's got anywhere near this close to getting back into F1. For him to then put in a competitive showing would be beyond my comprehension. It would be one of the g...

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I know the halo is being introduced as a result of the Jules Bianchi tragedy, but will it really do anything to avoid something like Massa's incident with the spring in Hungary?

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I've just booked my tickets for Knockhill! Now I just have to figure out where I will be spending the Saturday night. (The Sunday night will involve driving back to south-west London for 11:30 am Monday morning.) With the cost of the petrol Baker, you might be better off getting a flight up there i...

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My gosh what a race that was. I just wish there wasn't a red flag and that Winkelhock's car didn't give out.

Great article, really brought feelings of nostalgia.

watka

I'm gonna drop a future funk album this weekend under the moniker of D U R O W A V E (there's already a 4-track mixtape on bandcamp under the same name, you can search it but i advice, it sounds too sloppy) You happen to be on a forum with a person obsessed with micro-genres, particularly those in ...

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I miss V10s, but not necessarily for the same reasons as everyone else...

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dinizintheoven wrote:Considering that Damon Hill had to tell him to stop commentating when they went out for a pizza, it wouldn't surprise me.

I'm sure we've all seen it, but I can't bear to think that there is someone on the forum who hasn't had the joy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwkU7dw-yWc

watka

Six points go to Pierre Gasly , who will be giving Daniil Kvyat some sleepless nights if anyone in the Toro Rosso hierarchy was watching the second Formula E race in the West Brooklyn Desert. Yes, yes, I know, that's Sébastien Buemi's car and it's better than the rest, but a fair few drivers have t...

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1. Hulkenberg - Renault made some steps forward this weekend but he was comfortably ahead of the Force Indias which I thought would do well at Silverstone.

2. Bottas - drove through the field in the same way we would expect/demand Hamilton to. Definitely done enough for the seat next year.

watka

We are now fourth season in the hybrid era. Still we see a lot of complaining about the car sounds. The current cars are very fast. That led to my thinking: When the change was done, there were a lot of other changes to the cars and therefore lap times were slower than in the last season of V8s. Fr...

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Can't really blame the British crowd for treating Vettel like a pantomine villain, it's only been a few races since the Azerbaijan GP, the incident is still fresh in the mind with the British press never failing to pass up an attempt to comment on Vettel's temperament. A lot of people can be measure...

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And the European comeback of Rangers ended in a glorious defeat against Progres Niederkorn, 4th placed team of Luxembourg. Oh Scotland, how much have you fallen. The european debut of kosovar teams didn't end in glory either, champion Trepça lost against Faroëse champing Vikingur and Prishtina is s...

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I eagerly await!

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2017 If "Red Bull Get A Grand Prix Why Don't All The Other Teams?" GP 1. I 2. Have 3. Missed 4. Too 5. Many 6. Rounds 7. To 8. Be 9. Relevant 10. Anymore Pole: North (gotta a fifty-fifty chance with this one) Fastest lap: Lap 64 First retirement: Rosberg obviously, we've known this since ...

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I believe the track used to be called the A1-Ring so that it would appear first in the under "motor racing circuits" in the Austrian Yellow Pages

watka

I'm just catching up with this thread and all I have to contribute is that I won't be able to think of Force One without also thinking of this:

watka

1957 Scoring system: 8-6-4-3-2, fastest lap 1pt Drivers Championship 1/ JEAN BEHRA - 62.5pts [14] - 5 wins, 4.5 FLs https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/05/4a/5a/054a5a3db3c1c91b3590c2dd86386d76.jpg 2/ Juan Manuel Fangio - 59pts [10] - 5 wins, 4 FLs 3/ Luigi Musso - 43.5pts [11] - 1 win, 1.5 F...

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Too early to judge it I think. I'm certainly looking forward to the Grand Prix anyway. That narrow turn by the castle is already a classic in my eyes.

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Andorra guys Which also leads me to question 'what on earth is hungary doing?' I can't remember them being that bad... They were OK at Euro 2016, they finished top of their group and with a bit more luck would have beaten eventually champions Portugal. Andorra seem to be on a bit of a roll; three c...

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Don't know if you would call it a privilege to have spent so much time with him, but wow. Van Rossem is definitely one of the most interesting guys from that era of F1.

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Thanks Thomas, I really enjoyed the article! Good to see that such an important innovation was the brainchild of a reject!

watka

Per the BBC Sport article, Kubica is quoted as saying "I'm proud with what I achieved but also it shows what I've lost". Not sure if he means that he was saddened by missing out on Formula 1 for all those years or whether he was saddened by how much slower he was than before the accident. ...

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Excellent to see him back in an F1 car. I get the impression that he's a hero to Poland. He can be an excellent ambassador for the sport.

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2017 "Why Can't I Get Molson In The UK, Oh Wait It's Basically The Same As Coors Light" Grand Prix 1. Vettel 2. Bottas 3. Hamilton 4. Raikkonen 5. Perez 6. Ricciardo 7. Sainz 8. Verstappen 9. Grosjean 10. Stroll Pole: Bottas Fastest Lap: Vettel 1st Retirement: Wehrlein RoTR: Verstappen IID...

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Only 55/82 for me, losing my touch

watka

So disappointed I didn't get a chance to watch the race, I was with family yesterday. Sato vs Chilton for the win sounds like the stuff of dreams.

watka

1. Haas - on the money all weekend. I'm not Magnussen's biggest fan and Grosjean is not the safest pair of hands but they were rock solid. 2. Sainz - there are weekends were he is well clear of the rest of the midfield, and this was one of them. Shame that Red Bull is the least likely of the top 3 t...

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Gosh where do I start! 1. Sergio Perez - I will always maintain that the number one rule at Monaco is to NEVER attempt a pass at Rascasse. In the 20 odd years of watching the Monaco GP, I can count on one hand the amount of times that an attempted pass into that corner hasn't ended in a collision. P...

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RIP Eric. Huge respect for the man, he made so much racing possible with all the cars that Lola made for various series.

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Putrajaya returns! http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=7080128

watka

Terrible news about Hayden. 2006 was right when I was really into MotoGP before I came back towards F1. Still remember the championship going down to the wire after Pedrosa wiped him out. He was livid! And then coming back in Valencia and winning the title after Rossi stacked it. Incredible scenes....

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2017 Rats (well dressed) Up A Drainpipe GP

1. Ricciardo
2. Vettel
3. Hamilton
4. Raikkonen
5. Sainz
6. Kvyat
7. Perez
8. Magnussen
9. Grosjean
10. Button

Pole: Vettel
Fastest Lap: Hamilton
First retirement: Bottas
ROTR: Bottas
IIDOTR: Toro Rosso
DBTMOTR: Bottas
MLP: Ocon
DNQ: None

watka

We've had movie tie-ins in Monaco before, so why not 50 Shades Darker...

watka

The problem with Palmer is that he is experienced enough and has good enough results to evidence that he has the talent to be in Formula 1 regardless of the money, but hasn't shown us any of that talent and is taking up a half decent race seat. It's just frustrating to watch.

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An NJ Street Circuit race would be excellent, as long as there isn't a nearby ostrich race going on at the same time...

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Given the changes in regulation this year to speed up the cars, it's likely that the McLarens will be well clear of Super Formula pace. Unless for some reason they decide to put Badoer in the car for a weekend.

watka

Palmer is so consistently poor that I'm wondering if Renault can't actually run 2 cars to the same level of pace and are focusing on Hulkenberg's car. Hulkenberg's been in around the points every week and Palmer's propped the grid up. I know Palmer's probably not F1 champion material and isn't as f...

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1. Pascal Wehrlein - had the strategy and the pace for some very useful points, proving many of his doubters wrong
2. Ferrari - for doing the unusually open and kind act of inviting the kid to meet Kimi

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